The remunicipalization literature posits that municipalities increasingly reject privatization in
favor of in-house service delivery. A frequent interpretation is that remunicipalization …

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Practitioners often expect service delivery by municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to
differ substantially from delivery by municipal bureaucracy. However, research into the …

The corporatization of public services by moving services previously provided in‐house into
various types of arms‐length corporate forms of organization is becoming an important trend …

Purpose Hybrid organising faces a fundamental challenge in managing multiple and
conflicting logics. Prior studies have evidenced the performative role of accounting within …

In this paper, we discuss the state of the art on the creation of arm's length bodies (ALBs) by
local governments. We make three main contributions. First, there are many different types of …

Post crisis, local governments'(LGs) budgets have been drastically cut in Britain. Similar
budgetary strains had serious consequences in the past, leading to major restructuring in …

Hybridisation of public services has increased under neoliberalism and New Public
Management policies, over the past four decades since the 1980s. Hybrid arrangements for …

Purpose This study examines the interplay of formal types of control (input, behavior and
outcome) exercised on municipally owned corporations (MOCs). It further investigates …

Local governments are increasingly relying on municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to
provide public services. Some describe this development as a rational response to austerity …